Stephanie A. Sellers

Stephanie A. Sellers is a Native American Studies scholar who teaches in the English Department and the Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies Programs. She holds a doctoral degree in Native American Studies with an emphasis on Women of the Eastern Woodlands. Sellers's dissertation, Native American Autobiography Redefined, was published in 2007 by Peter LangUSA, as was her second book, Native American Women's Studies: A Primer in 2009. She recently published a co-edited volume titled Weaving the Legacy: Remembering Paula Gunn Allen (West End Press 2017). Her poetry, essays, and coyote stories (the first form of social satire in the Americas) have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as American Indian Quarterly, Native Literatures: Generations, American Indian Culture & Research Journal, Calyx: The Journal of Art and Literature by Women,Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, and Americana E-Journal of American Studies at the University of Hungary. Additional work is published in the following books: The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming and Recovery (Demeter Press), and Unfolding the Spreading Cloth of Time: Indigenous Thoughts on the Universe (Renegade Press). Sellers has presented her research at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum and on the Native American Traditions panels at national conferences of the American Academy of Religion, Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Modern Language Association, National Women Studies Association, the International Society for the Study of American Women Writers, and co-Chaired a panel at the Northeastern Modern Language Association. She was on the National Women's Studies Association's speaker's bureau from 2008-2010.

Sellers is a Founding Director on the Board of the Collegiate Women's Leadership Educators committee of the American Association of University Women (since 2012).

In 2013, she was awarded the Gettysburg College Faculty Award for Community-Based Engagement, and was the Inaugural Director of the Women's Center from 2009-2014.